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@dr134 I don't think the DMCA is the proper legislation for handling cheating in online games. If anything, I think the proper way to handle such things would be to create membership of a "professional" association for any online game and for the game's standards body to rule on bans for cheating, etc.
The DMCA's DRM circumvention clause has never been fit for purpose and I don't support its use against anyone, at any age. It should be taken away and rewritten until it's not as much of an abomination as it is now.

Further, I despise the EULA system. Absolutely nobody reads the silly things, and there's never an opportunity to read them before purchasing the software. The entire setup is, again, ridiculous, and needs to be thoroughly reexamined.

@airbagfin51 I think you're misunderstanding the nature of the criticism.

People aren't asking "Why would you put this in the game?" they're asking "Why would you put this in the tralier?"

Not only "Why would you, David Cage, put this in the trailer?" but also "Why did you, David Cage, put this in the trailer for a showcase reel?" and also ""Why did you, Sony bosses, not protest David Cage's decision to put a harrowing scene in the showcase reel that was otherwise filled with standard, action/cutesy/whatever trailers?"

The TLOU2 and Detroit trailers seem to have been quite poorly judged to fit into a standard trailer reel and it's that that people are questioning, rather than the games themselves.

Always been a fan of these games (for around ten years now, apparently!). Loved the first Untold, felt PQ didn't quite fit together properly, sadly (though it was a very brave attempt, moving Persona's combat from turn-based to round-based never clicked with me and I found the game incredibly tedious).
Hadn't realised the outside-Japan release of EO5 was coming up (Japanese publishers do themselves absolutely no favours by letting the prerelease hype build for the Japanese release then die off for an entire year before crapping out a translation virtually unannounced in the English-speaking markets) so I'm very glad for the heads up. I'll probably be picking this up just before a big holiday I've got coming up in November.

"As a balance goal, we’re working towards having the most powerful items in the game only earnable via in-game achievements."
No comment about whether said achievements will be earnable without lootboxing. No ta.